dosbox-announce

Dosbox is a full x86 emulator written in C/C++ with sound
and dos.
It's main use is to run old dosgames on platforms which
don't have dos(win2k/XP/FreeBSD/linux).
The most important new features:
- Disney sound system
- better timing
- Many bugfixes
- improved mouse support
Get it at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox
This release is a Christmas release and is the result of all
the bugs found and fixed by the beta-group.
At the end of this document the full changelog for 0.57.
at least 50 problems have been fixed that prevented at least
50 games from starting up.
Peter Veenstra
0.57
- added support for command /C
- fixed all fcb-write functions
- fixed fcb-parseline
- added debugger under linux/freebsd
- added debugger memory breakpoints and autolog function
(heavy debug)
- added loadfix.com program that eats up memory (default
64kb)
Usage : loadfix [-option] [programname] [parameters]...
Example: loadfix mm2 (Allocates 64kb and starts
executable mm2)
loadfix -32 mm2 (Allocates 32kb and starts
executable mm2)
loadfix -128 (Allocates 128kb)
loadfix -f (frees all previous allocated
memory)
- added echoing of characters for input function
- added support for backspace for input function
- added partial support for int10:01 set cursortype
- fixed most of the problems/bugs with character input.
- fixed allocationinfo call.(darksun series)
- improved dos support for non-existant functions
- Split screen support
- prefix 66 67 support
- rewrote timingscheme so 1000 hz timers don't cause
problems anymore
- update adlib emulation
- fixed some isues with the mouse (double clicks and
visible when it shouldn't be)
- improved mouse behaviour (mickey/pixel rate) and
detection routines.
- basic ansi.sys support
- Disney sound system emulation
- rewrote upcase/lowcase functions so they work fine with
gcc3.2
- SHELL: added rename and delete
- added support for command /C. Fixed crashes in the shell
- fixed various bugs when exiting dosbox
- fixed a bug in XMS
- fixed a bug with the joystick when pressing a button
- create nicer configfiles.
- bios_disk function improved.
- trapflag support
- improved vertical retrace timing.
- PIT Timer improvements and many bug fixes
- Many many bug fixes to the DOS subsystem
- Support for memory allocation strategy
- rewrote cpu mainloop to act more like a real cpu

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